Words similar to laughter
Example sentences for: laughter
How can you use “laughter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Two terms, now considered somewhat archaic, that fit into the category of eliciting laughter are jest and sally .
Although, indeed, against these last, notwithstanding the laughter they might excite (of which spark of pleasure the writer will only be too glad to be the cause), farwrittle and farspeakle for telegraph and telephone may have as much, if not more, to recommend them, as they have or any before them.
Thus when Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott proposed a brief mid-afternoon break, Rehnquist responded, to ripples of laughter, "Let's keep going."
Sure enough, the transcript shows nothing nastier than sprinkled applause and laughter.
Some slips that pass in the type might send their clippers; into paroxysms of hysterical laughter, but if they have no effect on the Editor, they are consigned to oblivion.